Dr Victoria Dawson
@vsdawson.bsky.social
Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
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🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨
We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk
Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk
Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
The Arthur Scargill Archive
Following a two year cataloguing project the Library is pleased to announced that the Arthur Scargill Archive is now open to all researchers.
tinyurl.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
🚨NEWLY CATALOGUED COLLECTION🚨
We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk
Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
We are delighted to announce that after a 2-year project, the Arthur Scargill Archive is now available for research in our public reading room!🎉
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/cz3s5dxk
Browse the catalogue➡️ tinyurl.com/vn4xvdd6
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social @sslh.bsky.social
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#OtD 27 Jan 1919 workers went on strike in the engineering and shipbuilding industries in Glasgow to fight for the 40-hour working week. The stoppage would grow to over 40,000 workers by January 30 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1027...
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 27 Jan 1919 workers went on strike in the engineering and shipbuilding industries in Glasgow to fight for the 40-hour working week. The stoppage would grow to over 40,000 workers by January 30 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1027...
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"It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE's actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill
Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"It does not matter, in practical terms, whether ICE's actions are legal. In mafia states, legal is a malleable notion. What matters is that they are wrong. What matters is how they can be stopped."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
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If this thread hasn’t already found its way onto your timeline, do take the time to have a read.
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 PM
If this thread hasn’t already found its way onto your timeline, do take the time to have a read.
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I hate this Amber infatuation for Brad.
I hope Amber's current predicament was the result of an Irish fling.
Fallon accusing Harrison of a dalliance and attempted murder in the space of five minutes is a lot. #TheArchers
I hope Amber's current predicament was the result of an Irish fling.
Fallon accusing Harrison of a dalliance and attempted murder in the space of five minutes is a lot. #TheArchers
January 18, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I hate this Amber infatuation for Brad.
I hope Amber's current predicament was the result of an Irish fling.
Fallon accusing Harrison of a dalliance and attempted murder in the space of five minutes is a lot. #TheArchers
I hope Amber's current predicament was the result of an Irish fling.
Fallon accusing Harrison of a dalliance and attempted murder in the space of five minutes is a lot. #TheArchers
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Yesterday I ended up with a very long thread after posting a photo. As many complain I started finding it hard to follow the thread on Blue Sky
There's a way around that now by turning on tree setting in your thread settings. It works!
Go to:
Settings
Content and Media
Thread settings
There's a way around that now by turning on tree setting in your thread settings. It works!
Go to:
Settings
Content and Media
Thread settings
January 18, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Yesterday I ended up with a very long thread after posting a photo. As many complain I started finding it hard to follow the thread on Blue Sky
There's a way around that now by turning on tree setting in your thread settings. It works!
Go to:
Settings
Content and Media
Thread settings
There's a way around that now by turning on tree setting in your thread settings. It works!
Go to:
Settings
Content and Media
Thread settings
January 17, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
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The law (In Ireland, where Twitter is based) bans hosting and sharing, not specifically generating. So this policy change doesnt help Twitter stay within the law at all.
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 AM
The law (In Ireland, where Twitter is based) bans hosting and sharing, not specifically generating. So this policy change doesnt help Twitter stay within the law at all.
74,000 retail jobs were lost in 2025, according to The Grocer.
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 AM
74,000 retail jobs were lost in 2025, according to The Grocer.
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these days, if it's not one thing it's another
January 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
these days, if it's not one thing it's another
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NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster.
Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
January 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster.
Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’.
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open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Thousands of surveillance reports compiled by #spycops undercover police officers who spied on political campaigners were routinely passed to MI5 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Spycops sent thousands of surveillance reports to MI5, inquiry documents reveal
Security Service was able to compile detailed files on members of legitimate protest groups infiltrated by undercover police officers
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Thousands of surveillance reports compiled by #spycops undercover police officers who spied on political campaigners were routinely passed to MI5 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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One year this month and 7 years since this original Greenland post from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social .
My take on Trump and Greenland, written in 2019. My views haven't changed:
January 6, 2026 at 5:34 AM
One year this month and 7 years since this original Greenland post from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social .
The thing I've been thinking about is that whoever smacked George did so coldly. It wasn't in the heat of a moment with George; there was no argument/incident in that moment. So the attacker either plotted, has a propensity for repressing anger, or was provoked by someone/something else. #TheArchers
January 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM
The thing I've been thinking about is that whoever smacked George did so coldly. It wasn't in the heat of a moment with George; there was no argument/incident in that moment. So the attacker either plotted, has a propensity for repressing anger, or was provoked by someone/something else. #TheArchers
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fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
January 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
Of all the characters in #TheArchers who could rampage, who would you like to see go off on one?
I'd vote Clarrie. She has decades of repressed working-class female oppression ready to blow underneath all that stoicism. What that woman has had to put up with warrants an episode of unfettered rage.
I'd vote Clarrie. She has decades of repressed working-class female oppression ready to blow underneath all that stoicism. What that woman has had to put up with warrants an episode of unfettered rage.
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Of all the characters in #TheArchers who could rampage, who would you like to see go off on one?
I'd vote Clarrie. She has decades of repressed working-class female oppression ready to blow underneath all that stoicism. What that woman has had to put up with warrants an episode of unfettered rage.
I'd vote Clarrie. She has decades of repressed working-class female oppression ready to blow underneath all that stoicism. What that woman has had to put up with warrants an episode of unfettered rage.
A nod to the ongoing #Spycops Undercover Police Inquiry in tonight's #TheArchers.
January 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
A nod to the ongoing #Spycops Undercover Police Inquiry in tonight's #TheArchers.
I think what we are listening to is a Stirling Gold cheese dream. #TheArchers
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think what we are listening to is a Stirling Gold cheese dream. #TheArchers
[Insert grumble about the procedural inaccuracies of the police interviews here.]
[Also insert a grumble about how people are too trusting of police here. Remember kids: no solicitor = no comment.]
#TheArchers
[Also insert a grumble about how people are too trusting of police here. Remember kids: no solicitor = no comment.]
#TheArchers
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
[Insert grumble about the procedural inaccuracies of the police interviews here.]
[Also insert a grumble about how people are too trusting of police here. Remember kids: no solicitor = no comment.]
#TheArchers
[Also insert a grumble about how people are too trusting of police here. Remember kids: no solicitor = no comment.]
#TheArchers
Has the continuity announcer just dropped a massive spoiler? Is George going to die? #TheArchers
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Has the continuity announcer just dropped a massive spoiler? Is George going to die? #TheArchers